Open Services Markets Key To Doha Success: USTR

Law360, New York (October 13, 2009, 12:16 PM EDT) -- Progress on the Doha Round of trade talks will require other countries to open up their services markets, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told a trade summit Tuesday.

“We know that the biggest gains to the global economy are likely to derive from multilateral services liberalization, but the offers on the table right now fail to deliver on that promise,” Kirk said at the Global Services Summit.

"We have said flat out that there will be no deal without a solid result on services which would...